[31328] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue Sep 19 22:42:32 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at 18:58:21 (-0700), rdobbins@netmore.net wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
>
> Yes, in the common parlance, they're referred to as the 'root' servers.
> Most technical people, including myself (unless we're being pedantic) refer
> to them in the same way.
It would appear that at least some technical people need to learn to
mind their p's and q's a with a little more care and attention!
There is, and can ony be, one ``root'' in the DNS. Everything else is a
subdomain.
Just because once upon a time the root nameservers and the most common
Top-Level-Domain nameservers were one in the same doesn't mean you can
freely refer to the TLD servers as "root" servers!
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Greg A. Woods
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